Richmond hit AGAIN

Drip · May 19, 2009

Moderator1 said:

From the publisher to staff:

To: All Times-Dispatch Employees
On April 2, I regretfully informed you of painful, but necessary, steps The Times-Dispatch was taking in response to our challenging economic conditions: we eliminated 31 open positions and laid off 59 employees across 11 departments that day. I also announced that there would be no pay increases in 2009 for all non-unionized employees.
We also invited the Richmond Newspapers Professional Association to equally participate in our cost-cutting efforts by foregoing the 2009 pay increases in their union contract. We explained to the RNPA, as we explained to everyone, that wage concessions were necessary in all departments to properly align our expenses with our depressed revenues. We also said that, without wage concessions, it would be necessary to achieve the savings through other means, which could include additional layoffs.
Unfortunately, our requests for pay increase concessions were rejected. This was the wrong answer from the RNPA. As a result, today we laid off an additional five employees in the Newsroom to achieve our targeted expense reductions.
I know all of us are working hard to make sure we can weather an extremely tough recession and serve the information needs of our readers to the very best of our ability. You have all been asked to do more with less and you have shown you are not as shortsighted as some in our Newsroom. Your hard work and continued support are greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
TAS

Sports not hit in this go-round.
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Moddy, seeing as though you were there. In your opinion, can sports afford to lose a few more bodies and still effectively get a section out?

Mizzougrad96 · May 19, 2009

forever_town said:

I have met The Devil and he is a newspaper publisher.
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Way to offend the devil.

Moderator1 · May 19, 2009

No.
They can't afford to lose what has already been lost.

imjustagirl · May 19, 2009

Preach on, Moddy.

The names I've heard weren't names that were easily lost either. Christ, this is just horrifying.

Moderator1 · May 19, 2009

I can preach all I want. It won't do any good.
They didn't listen to me when I worked there. They damn sure aren't going to listen to me now.

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